What YA books release this week? (April 5)

What new YA books release this week? We have a list of this week’s March YA books!

U.S.

23 Minutes by Vivian Vande Velde
Publisher: Boyds Mill Press
Release date: April 5th
Zoe has a unique ability: she can play back time and repeat events. But it’s not an unlimited deal—she can only jump 23 minutes, and only 10 times before this particular 23 minutes becomes irreversible.

Alight (The Generations Trilogy #3) by Scott Sigler
Publisher: Del Rey
Release date: April 5th
Em fought to assert herself as leader and her friends tried to comprehend their own identity; now she must wrestle not with the challenge of winning power but the responsibility of having assumed it.

Away We Go by Emil Ostrovski
Publisher: Greenwillow
Release date: April 5th
Westing is not your typical school. Every student has been diagnosed with PPV, or the Peter Pan Virus. No one is expected to live to graduation. What do you do at a school where no one has a future?

Boys of Summer by Jessica Brody
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Release date: April 5th
Best friends since they were kids, Grayson, Mike, and Ian were hoping for another epic summer on “The Locks”, filled with clam bakes, bonfires, and late-night swims in the ocean. But that was before.

Burningby Danielle Rollins
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children’s
Release date: April 5th
After three years in juvie, Angela Davis is just a few months shy of release, and she’ll finally be free from the hole that is Brunesfield Correctional Facility. Then Jessica arrives.

Charlotte Cuts it Out by K.A. Barson
Publisher: Viking
Release date: April 5th
Charlotte and Lydia are juniors, in a Cosmetology Arts program where they’ll get on-the-job training. The Grand Plan is right on schedule. And that’s when things start going off the rails.

Daughters of Ruin by K.D. Castner
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
Release date: April 5th
Rhea, Cadis, Suki, and Iren have lived together since they were children. They are called sisters. They are not. They are called equals. They are not. They are princesses…and they are enemies.

Don’t Tell, Don’t Tell, Don’t Tell by Liane Shaw
Publisher: Second Story Press
Release date: April 5th
After Angel makes a rash decision and disappears, Frederick is called in for questioning by the police and is torn between telling the truth and keeping his friend’s secret.

Dreamers Often Lie by Jacqueline West
Publisher: Dial
Release date: April 5th
Jaye wakes up from a skiing accident with a fractured skull, a blinding headache, and her grip on reality sliding into delusion. If anyone knew the truth it would all be over.

The End of Fun by Sean McGinty
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Release date: April 5th
FUN—the latest in augmented reality—is fun but it’s also frustrating, glitchy and dangerously addictive. Just when everyone else is getting on, seventeen-year-old Aaron O’Faolain wants off.

Essential Maps for the Lost by Deb Caletti
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Release date: April 5th
When Madison makes a startling discovery, the body of a dead woman floating in the middle of a lake, the summer after her senior year becomes more complicated than she ever expected.

The Fallen Prince (The Riven Chronicles #2) by Amalie Howard
Publisher: Sky Pony Press
Release date: April 5th
Riven has fought for a hard-won peace in her world, and has come to shaky terms with who and what she is—a human with cyborg DNA. Riven is on the hunt for her father to bring him to justice.

Fiona by Meredith Moore
Publisher: Razorbill
Release date: April 5th
Fiona leaves her fractured home in Texas for a brand-new life in the Scottish Highlands to be the au pair for Poppy Mackenzie, the young daughter of her mother’s childhood friends.

Flamecaster (Shattered Realms #1) by Cinda Williams Chima
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release date: April 5th
Ash’s and Jenna’s paths will collide in Arden. Thrown together by chance and joined by their hatred of the king, they will come to rescue each other in ways they cannot yet imagine.

Flawed (Flawed #1) by Cecelia Ahern
Publisher: Feiwel & Friends
Release date: April 5th
Celestine North lives a perfect life. But then Celestine encounters a situation where she makes an instinctive decision. She breaks a rule. And now faces life-changing repercussions.

Girl in the Blue Coat by Monica Hesse
Publisher: Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Release date: April 5th
Amsterdam, 1943. Hanneke spends her days procuring and delivering sought-after black market goods to paying customers, until she is asked to find a missing Jewish girl before the Nazis do.

The Glittering Court (The Glittering Court #1) by Richelle Mead
Publisher: Razorbill
Release date: April 5th
To high-born Adelaide, the Glittering Court represents the chance to escape from a loveless marriage alliance, chart her own destiny, and adventure in an unspoiled, prosperous new land across the sea.

Golden (Heart of Dread #3) by Melissa de la Cruz & Michael Johnston
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers
Release date: April 5th
Nat and Wes go on a journey to find the Rift, save the source of magic and defeat the Drau, the pirates, and the RSA—but at a great sacrifice. Wes is dying.

The Haters by Jesse Andrews
Publisher: Amulet Books
Release date: April 5th
For Wes and his best friend, Corey, jazz camp turns out to be lame. It’s pretty much all dudes talking in Jazz Voice. But then they jam with Ash, a charismatic girl with an unusual sound, and the three just click.

Lady Renegades (Rebel Belle #3) by Rachel Hawkins
Publisher: G.P. Putnam’s Sons Books for Young Readers
Release date: April 5th
Just as Harper Price starts coming to terms with her role as David Stark’s battle-ready Paladin, protector, and girlfriend—her world goes crazy all over again.

Love Me Never (Lovely Vicious #1) by Sara Wolf
Publisher: Entangled Teen
Release date: April 5th
Seventeen-year-old Isis Blake hasn’t fallen in love in three years, nine weeks, and five days, and after what happened last time, she intends to keep it that way.

The Mirror King (The Orphan Queen #2) by Jodi Meadows
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Release date: April 5th
Wilhelmina has a hundred enemies. After her identity is revealed, Princess Wilhelmina is kept prisoner by the Indigo Kingdom, with the Ospreys lost somewhere in the devastated city.

My Kind of Crazy by Robin Reul
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Release date: April 5th
Despite the best of intentions, seventeen-year old, wisecracking Hank Kirby can’t quite seem to catch a break. It’s not that he means to screw things up all the time, it just happens. A lot.

The Natural History of Us by Rachel Harris
Publisher: Spencer Hill Press
Release date: April 5th
One class assignment. One second chance at love. The school player is all in. Now he needs to win back the sweet commitment girl who’s forever owned his heart.

The New Guy (and Other Senior Year Distractions) by Amy Spalding
Publisher: Poppy
Release date: April 5th
I have one main goal for my senior year-early acceptance into my first choice Ivy League college-and I will not be deterred by anything. At least, that was the plan before I knew about Alex Powell.

Nightstruckby Jenna Black
Publisher: Tor Teen
Release date: April 5th
Becket is an ordinary teenage girl, wrestling with the upheaval of her parents’ divorce. That all changes the night she tries to save an innocent life and everything goes horribly wrong.

Once Upon a Dream (A Twisted Tale #2) by Liz Braswell
Publisher: Disney Hyperion
Release date: April 5th
It should be simple–a dragon defeated, a slumbering maiden, a prince poised to wake her. But when said prince falls asleep as soon as his lips meet the princess’s, it is clear this fairy tale is far from over.

The Requiem Red by Bryn Chapman
Publisher: Month9Books
Release date: April 5th
A monster roams the halls of Soothing Hills Asylum. Three girls dead. Patient 29 is endowed with the curse…or gift of perception. She hears messages in music, sees lyrics in paintings.

The Taming of the Drew by Stephanie Kate Strohm
Publisher: Sky Pony Press
Release date: April 5th
Cass McKay has been called stubborn, temperamental, difficult, and that word that rhymes with “witch” more times than she cares to count. But that’s all about to pay off.

Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum
Publisher: Delacorte Press
Release date: April 5th
Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that’s what it feels like during her first week at her new intimidating prep school. What if the person you need the most is someone you’ve never met?

Tell the Wind and Fire by Sarah Rees Brennan
Publisher: Clarion Books
Release date: April 5th
Lucie Manette was born in the Dark half of the city, but careful manipulations won her a home in the Light. In a city divided by the Light and the Dark, a young woman survives by guarding her secrets.

When We Collided by Emery Lord
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children’s
Release date: April 5th
Jonah never thought a girl like Vivi would come along. Vivi didn’t know Jonah would light up her world. Neither of them expected a summer like this…a summer that would rewrite their futures.

The Memory Jar by Elissa Janine Hoole
Publisher: Flux
Release date: April 8th
Facing choices she’d rather ignore, Taylor searches for something more solid than whispers and something bigger than blame to face the future and forgive herself.

Tragedy Girl by Christine Hurley Deriso
Publisher: Flux
Release date: April 8th
just as Anne starts to feel she’s finally found something good in all the tragedy in her life, she can’t ignore signs that something’s off. Blake is hiding something darker than Anne she can comprehend.

CANADA

Fifteen Lanes by S.J. Laidlaw
Publisher: Tundra Books
Release date: April 5th
Noor has lived all of her fourteen years in Mumbai’s red light district. Born into a brothel, she is destined for the same fate as her mother. She must act soon to have any chance of escaping.

Forest of Ruin (Age of Legends #3) by Kelley Armstrong
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Release date: April 5th
With lies and betrayal lurking around every corner, Ashyn and Moria will have to decide once and for all where their allegiances are. And it may not be where their hearts would lead them….

U.K.

Desolation (The Demon Road #2) by Derek Landy
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release date: April 7th
Reeling from their bloody encounter in New York City, Amber and Milo flee north. On their trail are the Hounds of Hell – five demonic bikers who will stop at nothing to drag their quarries back.

Head Over Heels (Geek Girl #5) by Holly Smale
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release date: April 7th
Harriet knows exactly how her life should go. She’s got it ALL planned out. So when love is in the air, Harriet is determined to Make Things Happen! If only everyone else would stick to the script…

Kookby Chris Vick
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release date: April 7th
Fifteen-year old Sam has moved from the big city to the coast – stuck there with his mum and sister on the edge of nowhere. Then he meets surfer-girl Jade. Soon he’s in love with her, and with surfing itself.

Long Dark Dusk (The Australia Trilogy #2) by James Smythe
Publisher: Hodder Children’s Books
Release date: April 7th
Chan Aitch made it her mission to save everyone she could from their fate worse than death. But her efforts were in vain. Now, everyone she cares about is gone, and Chan is more alone than ever before.

Love Song by Sophia Bennett
Publisher: Chicken House
Release date: April 7th
A million girls would kill for the chance to meet The Point, but Nina’s not one of them. She’s the new assistant to the lead singer’s diva fiancée, and she knows it’s going to suck.

Passengerby Alexandra Bracken
Publisher: Quercus
Release date: April 7th
Thrust into an unfamiliar world by a stranger with a dangerous agenda, Etta is certain of only two things: she has travelled not just miles but years from home and she has inherited a mysterious legacy.

Read Me Like a Book by Liz Kessler
Publisher: Orion Books
Release date: April 7th
Ashleigh Walker is in love. There’s just one thing bothering her… Shouldn’t it be her boyfriend, Dylan, who makes her feel this way – not Miss Murray, her English teacher?

The Sign of One by Eugene Lambert
Publisher: Egmont Press
Release date: April 7th
In the Barrenlands of Wrath, no one dies of old age. Kyle is used to its harsh laws, but the cold-blooded separation of identical twins and execution of the ‘evil twists’ at the Annual Peace Fair shocks him.

Underwaterby Marisa Reichardt
Publisher: Macmillan Children’s Books
Release date: April 7th
Morgan didn’t mean to do anything wrong that day. Actually, she meant to do something right. But her kind act inadvertently played a role in a deadly tragedy and she can’t move on.

V for Violet by Alison Rattle
Publisher: Hot Key Books
Release date: April 7th
Battersea, 1961. London is just beginning to enter the swinging sixties. The world is changing – but not for sixteen-year-old Violet, until she meets Beau – who blows up Violet’s grey life.

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